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Hi All,
I am planning to build up a CRM system for a charity. Here I have some general questions about it.
1. We want to manage the service time for the volunteers. But in CiviCRM, I didn't see such a interface to record the available time for each volunteer and the volunteer time for each activity. A possibility is to add such field by customer field. Am I right? Is there any existing modules for that?

2. It is most probably I need to add some customer field or something like that. Is there a way to allow the team work? I mean maybe there are several people working together to customize the CiviCRM. How can they work together? What should be keep for those new add customer fields and reports? 

Thanks all for now. Thanks in advance.

Hershel,
Thanks for your response and sorry for my poor English. 
I mean, we have the source control system like CVS, SVN when we developing a Source Code based project. And I know a little about Siebel which support this kind of team work too when configuration the CRM system. Is there any way to do this kind of team work in CiviCRM? Like when one person add some new field, how this information be keeped in the CVS?
I hope I make myself clear this time.

IsaacMars,
Glad to see your answer. Yes, I guess something like "Monday Mornings", "Friday Afternoons" is enough to record volunteer time. This is really a good idea to use tags or groups to organize it.

For the SVN stuff, it is just based on my project experience. There are several reasons to use a separate system in development, like:
1. The project will be handled iteratively, that's mean we will just finish a base version in the first step and then add some more new features base on it. In this way, I don't want to do such development work on the productive system in case it affect the daily work.
2. For the backup purpose, we may want to backup all of the customized parts.
3. For the sharing purpose, we may want to these customized parts to others who want them too.

Actually,  I believe there are lots of non-profit organization need CiviCRM and the feature we will add in China. There is not such system in using in my country for now. People usually use Excel to report contacts/activities.

Thanks

So the customer fields information only exists in the database? That is OK to extract a DDL and keep in the CVS. Thank you Hershel for your suggestion.